Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Humphry Davy, Bt NPG 1573

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, 1802-13. Davy undertook groundbreaking work with gases and electrolysis and in 1807 he demonstrated the existence of potassium, sodium and chlorine with a galvanic battery. He also experimented with diamond combustion and invented the miner's safety lamp in 1815, becoming President of the Royal Society 1820-7. From his close friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey he absorbed the concept of 'Romantic genius', to which he aspired. With charm and entrepreneurial flair, he joined a new breed... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.